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# refinery

noun

«refinery» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

52 uses in 17 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 52 of 52. By the class of the article: city 8, country 4, agglomeration 3, company 1. Most often with: «oil», «capacity», «city», «crude», «fuel».

### Examples

- Little Aden was developed as the site of the oil refinery and tanker port. — [Aden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), sentence 13 («wiki:Aden:13»)
- Over the next few decades, Victorville boomed as the commercial center of the area with gold refineries, quarries, and dance halls and saloons, while Apple Valley remained more pastoral with ranches and apple orchards. — [Apple Valley, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Valley,_California), sentence 24 («wiki:Apple\_Valley,\_California:24»)
- The city's key industrial sectors include petroleum, steel, shipbuilding, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, jute, leather goods, vegetable oil refineries, glass manufacturing, electronics and motor vehicles. — [Chittagong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong), sentence 239 («wiki:Chittagong:239»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Apple Valley, California»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Valley,_California), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Chittagong»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.